Hi Alon Have you downloaded and read the manual? The answers to your questions are in it! Ian Westergaard In Sunny & Cool Central Otago New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alon using Cumberland Family Tree" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:29 AM Subject: [CFTW] Possible future enhancements.. and few questions.. > Hello all, > > I'm new to this list so please pardon if these issues have been raised before. > > Comparing the CFT to the UFT (Ultimate Family Tree) I find it to be far > superior and a heck more intuitive. > > I let my mom (who is not the most computer literate person) to do the > data gathering and entry. > > Issues that came while she was using it: > > 1. Each user that was created had // at the beginning of the name. > What is the meaning of those // symbols? > > 2. What is the format that the software expects you to enter the name? > i.e., Last, First, MI. or First Last etc... > > 3. What are the delimiters between the name parts commas, semicolun, '/'? > > 4. While most new users had only 2 // some at a slightly lower level had > 3 / -> /// does this signify anything? > > 5. When typing a new person, there is no alert or mentioning to already > existing individuals. My mom didn't realize that after 70 entries, > about 20 of them were duplicates. It would be great if there were > either alert msg to the user that an individual with identical name > already exists, OR while you type the new individual, there would be > an auto-fill that would be populated by each charachter. In the latter > solution, you could see immediatly if an individual has been entered > previously and use them instantly. > > 6. When viewing the list of Names, a 'sort-by' could come handy - by > clicking on the headers - to allow instant ascending/decending by that > column (e.g., Name, First, last, IRN number, Date of birth etc.) > > 7. How do you print a Decendants Tree - skeleton of names the way it > appears in the Decendants tab? It doesn't show in the Reports. > > > That's all, thanks for your help, > > -Alon > [email protected] > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >